ChiKat

We are staying at a very nice hotel in La Paz, Bolivia. We requested a crib for our room. Several hours later, a Graco Pack-n-Play arrives. I have traveled to Colorado, Michigan, Champaign-Urbana and now Bolivia. In every hotel, the crib is always a Graco Pack-n-Play.

Does Graco market to hotels? Do they go hotel door-to-door selling their wares? There are other Pack-n-Plays on the market, but Graco, in my admittedly limited experience, seems to dominate the hotel crib market.

Maybe it's a marketing ploy. My mother saw the Pack-n-Play at the hotel in Champaign-Urbana and immediately wanted to buy one for her own house.

If it's a marketing ploy, I am not surprised at the coverage in the U.S. But I have to admit, I'm surprised the Graco folks have made it all the way to Bolivia.

My son, of course, could care less. He laughs heartily at the very idea that he will actually sleep in the Pack-n-Play. I have no doubt that by midnight, he will have screamed and squirmed his way into our bed. Ah, family vacations.